"Yay"

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Via Pitchfork

"Yay" is our first taste of the new project from the Books' Nick Zammuto and it plays a bit like Battles engaged in a tug of war with Up With People. The track lays a sunshiney half-there vocal stutter over muscular drum-and-organ whirr, the dead-serious punch of its floor toms lending more dazzle to the melody. Zammuto's long been a cut-up, and it's nice to hear that his ear for detail and knack for arrangement are assured no matter the ensemble. And he's still finding order in his own chaos; throughout the celebratory "Yay", Zammuto wrangles all these small sonic gestures-- doubling up snares behind the vocal tic, organs tangling around themselves, chopping a song into a hiccup, and then making that hiccup into a song-- into something big and grand.